תוכן ענינים לפי נושא

Jump to: Waking in the Morning · Tzitzis and Tallis · Tefillin · Preparing for Prayer · Pesukei Dezimrah, Tachanun, Kaddish · Torah Reading · Tehillim and Chitas · The Shul · Conduct Toward Others · Bentching · Blessings · Mincha, Maariv, Shema at Bedtime · Preparing for Shabbos · Times of Shabbos · Candle Lighting · Friday Night and the Meal · Shabbos Day · Seudah Shlishis and Havdalah · Forbidden Work on Shabbos · Travel by Ship on Shabbos · Eruv · Kiddush Levanah · Yom Tov and Chol HaMoed · Pesach · Sefirah, Lag BaOmer, Shavuos · Fast Days, Three Weeks, Tisha B'Av · Elul and Selichos · Rosh Hashanah · Teshuvah and Yom Kippur · Sukkos · Chanukah · Purim · Bar Mitzvah and Birthdays · Not Yet Named

Waking in the Morning

• Modeh Ani
• Shivisi Hashem – Placing Hashem Before Me Always
• Immersion Before Prayer – Mikvah Before Davening
• Immersion Before Prayer – Mikvah Use by Men

Tzitzis and Tallis

• Tallis Gadol – Order of Wrapping the Tallis
• Interruptions – Sukkah, Tefillin, Tzitzis, and Rosh Chodesh
• Tallis Katan – Blessing
• Tallis Katan – Sleeping with It
• Machine-Made Tzitzis
• Making the Tzitzis
• Is There Techeiles in Our Days?
• The Continuous Mitzvah of Tzitzis
• Tallis Katan – Worn Over or Under the Shirt?
• Tallis Gadol – Wearing Before Marriage: Part 1, Part 2
• Tallis Katan – When It Is Difficult to Keep Clean

Tefillin

• Size of the Batim
• Further Discussion on the Size of the Batim
• Length of the Straps
• All Involved in Making Tefillin Must Be Pious
• Style of the Parshiyos
• Changing the Knot on Another's Tefillin
• The View of the Zohar on the Blessings
• If Someone Else Puts Them On You, Do You Make a Beracha?
• Blessing When in Doubt if Left-Handed
• Interrupting Between Shel Yad and Shel Rosh for a Holy Matter
• May a Scribe Write Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin if He Does Not Put Them On?
• Order of Putting On the Four Pairs
• Putting on Tefillin Before Bar Mitzvah
• When Does an Orphan Begin Putting on Tefillin?
• Why a Minor Does Not Recite the Blessing When Beginning Tefillin
• Tefillin Campaign – To Help in the War Against Israel's Enemies
• Tefillin Campaign – Why the Campaign?
• Tefillin Campaign – Answers to Arguments Against It
• Tefillin Campaign – Tefillin Are Holy; One May Not Have Bad Thoughts When Putting Them On
• Tefillin Campaign – What Is the Point if They Do Not Know the Intention?
• Tefillin Campaign – Responsibility to Help Others Put On Tefillin
• Tefillin Campaign – After Winning the Six-Day War, Why Continue?
• The Mitzvah Campaigns in Public Places

Preparing for Prayer, and Prayer

• Prayer and Torah Study – One Who Has a Catheter
• Torah Study – Women After Childbirth
• Eating Before Dawn on a Fast Day: Part 1, Part 2
• Snacking Before Davening: Part 1, Part 2
• Pas Shacharis (Morning Bread)
• Studying Chassidus Before Davening: Part 1, Part 2
• Giving Tzedakah Before Davening
• Kavanah (Concentration) in Prayer: Part 1, Part 2
• When to Pray if Awake All Night
• Praying in a Shul with a Different Nusach
• Using the Exact Wording of the Siddur

Pesukei Dezimrah, Tachanun, Kaddish

• Interrupting in the Middle of Pesukei Dezimrah
• Interrupting Pesukei Dezimrah with Brich Shmei
• Can You Say Kaddish D'Rabbanan in the Middle of Pesukei Dezimrah?
• Tachanun on the Day of a Tzaddik's Passing
• Kaddish Said by Mourners When There Are No Mourners
• Language of the Ani Maamin
• Reciting Parshas HaMan
• Praying for Physical Needs

Torah Reading

• Order of Aliyos
• How Hagbah Is Done: Part 1, Part 2
• If the Sefer Torah Falls with Its Mantle

Tehillim and Chitas

• Reciting Tehillim Corresponding to One's Age
• Reciting Hallel During the Order of Tehillim
• Giving Tzedakah While Reciting Tehillim
• Chitas – Tehillim, Chumash with Rashi, Tanya for Everyone
• Chitas – Reciting the Week's Chitas on Shabbos

The Shul

• Placement of the Bimah
• Paroches Inside the Ark
• Type of Mechitzah
• Images of Lions and Eagles on the Paroches
• Making Kiddush in the Shul
• Student Gatherings in the Shul: Part 1, Part 2
• Blind Person Entering with a Guide Dog
• Prayer of Rabbi Nechunya ben Hakana

Conduct Toward Others

• Loving Your Fellow as Yourself
• Responsibility for Others to Perform Mitzvos
• Not Saying the Name of the Author When Challenging Him

Bentching

• Mayim Acharonim
• Yom Tov Meal Extending into Shabbos
• Fourth Blessing of Bentching
• Harachaman Hu Yishbor: Ol HaGoyim Versus Ol Galus
• Harachaman: May He Bless Our Master, Teacher, and Rabbi
• Can You Fulfill Bentching by Saying Berich Rachamana?
• Can You Fulfill Bentching by Saying Al HaMichyah?
• Language of Al HaMichyah in Israel

Blessings

• Blessing on Raw Carrots
• Reminder to Make the After-Blessing
• Saying Hashem's Name When Teaching Someone Berachos
• Responding Amen to Hagomel
• Criteria for the Hagomel Blessing
• Hagomel for Release from House Arrest
• Expressing Thanks to Hashem
• Shehechiyanu on a Vegetable
• Time for the Blessing on Trees
• Blessing on Trees That Do Not Bear Fruit
• Blessing on a Rainbow
• Blessing for the Sun Every Twenty-Eight Years
• Blessing on an Eclipse of the Sun or Moon
• Tefilas HaDerech: Is Flying Considered a Journey?

Mincha, Maariv, Shema at Bedtime

• Tallis for the Chazan at Mincha and Maariv
• May the Chazan Begin Mincha with Korbanos?
• Tachanun in Mincha
• Shema at Bedtime – Yoshev BeSeiser (Psalm 91) and Where We Stop

Preparing for Shabbos

• Borrowing for Shabbos Expenses and Trusting Hashem to Repay
• Scheduling Medical Treatments Within Three Days Before Shabbos
• Cutting Nails on Erev Shabbos
• Tasting Shabbos Food on Friday Afternoon
• How Many Times to Immerse in the Mikvah on Erev Shabbos?
• The Holy Ari Would Not Use a Towel After Mikvah on Erev Shabbos
• The Importance and Timing of Shnayim Mikra VeEchad Targum
• Which Comes First: Shnayim Mikra VeEchad Targum or Studying Chassidus?
• Mincha on Erev Shabbos

Times of Shabbos

• Where the Day Is More or Less Than 24 Hours
• The International Date Line When Friday and Shabbos Meet: Part 1, Part 2
• Bein Hashmashos (Twilight): When Does It Begin?
• When Does Shabbos End?

Candle Lighting

• Regular Candles for Shabbos, Olive Oil for Chanukah; Tzedakah
• Special Prayers When Lighting the Candles (Techinos)
• Campaign for Young Girls to Light Candles from Age Three
• Further Discussion on the Campaign for Young Girls

Friday Night and the Meal

• Friday Night Prayers
• How High to Raise the Kiddush Cup?
• When the Head of the Household Makes Hamotzi, Do the Listeners Make Their Own?
• Order of Placing Lechem Mishnah

Shabbos Day: Prayer and Torah Reading

• The Alter Rebbe's Use of Hashem's Name in Hallel HaGadol
• Chei Olamim vs. LeChai Olamim in Shabbos Prayers
• When the Cantillation Does Not Match the Simple Meaning of the Verse: Part 1, Part 2
• On Shabbos, Our Custom Is Not to Add Aliyos
• Tradition When Reading the Tochacha
• Giving a Minor the Maftir Aliyah
• First and Last Verse in the Additional Haftorah
• Haftorah for Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Chanukah
• Haftorah for Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av
• Reciting Chapter 119 on Shabbos
• Half Kaddish After Torah Reading at Shabbos Mincha
• Reciting Pirkei Avos on Shabbos
• Language for Announcing the New Month on Shabbos Mevorchim
• Kaddish Before Musaf After a Long Pause: Part 1, Parts 1–2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion

Seudah Shlishis and Havdalah

• Giving Up a Chassidus Class to Listen to Mussar: Part 1, Part 2
• Seudah Shlishis
• Reconciling Kabbalah and Halacha on Eating at Seudah Shlishis
• Continued Discussion on Seudah Shlishis
• Havdalah: Its Reason and Obligation
• Dipping Fingers in Havdalah Wine and Passing Over Eyes
• The Melaveh Malkah Meal
• Reciting "Al Tira Avdi Yaakov" on Motzaei Shabbos

Forbidden Work on Shabbos

• Partnership in a Business Involving Shabbos Desecration
• Definition of the Prohibition of Sewing
• Using a Safety Pin: Part 1, Part 2
• Ceasing from Thoughts of Work
• Dancing on Shabbos
• Using a Generator
• Using a Microphone on Shabbos and Yom Tov: Part 1, Part 2
• Prohibition of Techumin When Traveling by Train

Travel by Ship on Shabbos

• The Prohibition of Traveling in a Jewish Ship on Shabbos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 11, Part 13

Eruv

• Eruv Chatzeiros in a Hotel
• Establishing an Eruv in Our Times
• Establishing an Eruv in Manhattan: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Kiddush Levanah

• Sanctification of the Moon

Yom Tov and Chol HaMoed

• Visiting One's Rebbe on the Festival in Our Times
• Shabbos That Falls on Yom Tov or Chol HaMoed: Part 1, Part 2
• Torah Study on Chol HaMoed
• Tefillin on Chol HaMoed
• Photography on Chol HaMoed

Pesach

The Month of Nisan and Matzah

• Nasi – Recitation During the Month of Nisan
• Nasi – Reading Nasi from the Torah on Shabbos
• Nasi – The Unity of the Nesi'im and All of Klal Yisrael
• Stringencies: Shruya, Shmura Matzah, and Minhagei Chabad
• Organizing Shmura Matzah for the Community
• Matzah Beyond Pesach: Requirement of Taste
• Stringencies: Gebrokts, Shmura Matzah, and Minhagim
• Matzah Over Twelve Months Old

Chometz

• The Rabbi Selling Chometz on Behalf of the Community
• Assistance with Bedikas Chometz
• Chometz in a Different Time Zone
• Fulfilling the Mitzvah of Tashbisu
• Selling Chometz Received from the Rebbe
• Immersing Dishes Sold to a Non-Jew After Pesach

Erev Pesach

• Taanis Bechorim When Erev Pesach Falls on Shabbos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
• Siyum Masechta: Completing a Tractate in Yerushalmi
• Not Eating Items Used for Marror and Charoses on Erev Pesach
• The Purpose of Reciting the Korban Pesach, Part 2
• Removing Meat from the Zeroa
• The Special Impact of the Korban Pesach

The Seder and the Days of Pesach

• When to Set Up the Seder Plate
• What Is Best to Use for Marror and Korech?
• How Long Is the Seder?
• Kiddush While Standing at the Seder
• Leaning During the Seder: Part 1, Part 2, The Two Mitzvos of Leaning
• Repeating the Mah Nishtanah
• Relating the Story of Yetzias Mitzrayim
• Dipping in Charoses
• Dipping Matzah in Charoses
• The Zeroa: Not Eating It at the Seder
• Afikoman
• Not Drinking Wine After the Four Cups
• Reciting Shir HaShirim on Pesach
• Not Adding to the Haggadah: Part 1, Part 2
• The Haggadah with the Fifth Cup
• Is There a Mitzvah to Eat Matzah All Seven Days?
• Eating Gebrokts (Soaked Matzah) on Pesach

Sefirah, Lag BaOmer, Shavuos

• Maariv Before Tzeis HaKochavim
• Lag BaOmer – Rejoicing
• Lag BaOmer – The Students of Rabbi Akiva
• Lag BaOmer – Weddings
• Lag BaOmer – Upsherin (First Haircut)
• Tikkun Leil Shavuos: Part 1, Part 2: Sefer Yetzirah, Zohar, Ruth, Akdamus
• Children in Shul During the Reading of the Aseres HaDibros
• Shavuos – One or Two Days, Yemei Tashlumin, Tachanun on 13 Sivan

Fast Days, Three Weeks, Tisha B'Av

• The Four Fasts: Part 1, Part 2
• The Three Weeks: Part 1, Part 2
• Medical Treatment During the Nine Days
• The Prohibition of Mourning on Shabbos During the Three Weeks
• Learning About the Beis HaMikdash During the Three Weeks: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• The Nine Days – Additional Laws and Customs
• Tisha B'Av: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Erev Tisha B'Av That Falls on Shabbos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Should One Be Stringent and Fast a Second Day? Part 1, Part 2

Elul and Selichos

• Kesivah Vechasimah Blessing from 15 Av
• Ledovid Hashem Ori, No Special Kaddish
• Study Derech Chayim from the Mitteler Rebbe
• Missed Shofar at Shacharis, Checking Tefillin and Mezuzos
• Customs for the Month of Elul
• Care of the Needy for Rosh Hashanah: Part 1, Part 2
• Selichos Saturday Night: Studying Maamar and Giving Charity
• Selichos: Yud Gimel Midos and Nefilas Apayim Without a Minyan
• Erev Rosh Hashanah Referred to as Zechor Bris
• Kaddish Tiskabel After Selichos

Rosh Hashanah

• Candle-Lighting Blessing: Formula, Concluding Wording
• Apple on First Night and New Fruit on Second Night
• Reciting Yehi Ratzon Between the Blessing and Eating the Apple: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Dipping the Hamotzi in Honey
• HaRachaman and Customs in Bentching
• Saying Zochreinu and Mi Chomocha During Chazaras HaShatz
• Preparations of the Chazan for the High Holiday Prayers
• A Mourner with a Chazakah as Baal Tefillah, Baal Korei or Baal Tokea
• Yizkor on Rosh Hashanah: When and Why It Is Not Recited
• Preparing for the Tekios: The Alter Rebbe's Approach and Intentions
• The Rebbe's Meaning of Veyachin in Tekias Shofar
• Personal Kavanah for Shofar, Even When the Chazan Fulfills Your Beracha
• Makri Tekios – Pointing in the Siddur for Tekiah, etc.
• Makri Tekios – Possible Reasons for Pointing
• Order of the Tekios – Length of Tekios
• Order of the Tekios – How Many Shevarim?
• Can One Fulfill the Mitzvah of Shofar with a Hearing Aid?

Teshuvah and Yom Kippur

• Teshuvah – For Shaming Someone
• Teshuvah – For Missing Tefillin
• Kapparos
• Foods We Eat Before Yom Kippur

Sukkos

• After Yom Kippur: Customs, Prayers, and Beginning Sukkah Preparations
• Building the Sukkah Immediately After Yom Kippur
• The Sukkah and Its Construction, Blessings on Building a Sukkah
• Defining "Yours" in Sukkah: Ownership and Borrowing
• The Chabad Custom of Not Decorating the Sukkah
• Intention in the Mitzvah of Sukkah: Part 1, Daas, Kavanah, and Halachic Sources
• Why Chabad Chassidim Do Not Sleep in the Sukkah
• Sleeping in the Sukkah, Rainy Sukkos, and Chabad Ushpizin Customs
• Why Chabad Uses Calabria (Yanover) Esrogim
• Tradition Versus External Signs in Determining Kosher Esrogim
• Ownership of the Esrog, Legal Restrictions, and Payment Timing
• The Kosher Size and Number of Hadasim
• Is Tying the Lulav a Mitzvah and Must You Tie It Yourself?
• The Reason for Reciting the Lulav Blessing in the Sukkah
• Sharing Arba Minim for Mivtzaim
• How to Perform the Naanuim with the Lulav
• When Simchas Beis Hashoeva Begins
• Musaf on Sukkos When Crossing the International Date Line
• Hoshana Rabbah: Sweet Apples and Removing Lulav Rings
• Shemini Atzeres and the Chabad Custom of Sitting in the Sukkah
• Reciting Mashiv HaRuach in Shacharis After the Announcement
• Deadline for Completing Shnayim Mikra on Shemini Atzeres
• Hakafos, Joy, and Women's Participation on Simchas Torah

Chanukah

• The Name of Chanukah – Dedication of the Mizbeiach
• Charity
• Significance of the Chanukah Lights
• We Light Between Mincha and Maariv
• We Put Oil to Burn for 50 Minutes
• Where There Is No Danger, the Menorah in Shul Should Stay Lit
• Do the Lights Need to Be in a Dish?
• Can You Fulfill the Mitzvah with Electric Bulbs?
• Lighting in Public Places
• Women and Girls Do Not Light Their Own Menorah
• Placement of the Menorah
• How the Chabad Rebbeim Lit Their Menorahs
• Time for Lighting the Menorah on Erev Shabbos
• Where to Place the Menorah?
• Children Light by the Entrances to Their Rooms
• Should the Wicks Be Changed Every Night?
• How Many Lights Do We Light?
• If One Lit Only One Light on Night 2, How Many on Night 3?
• Two Reasons Why We Increase or Decrease the Number of Lights
• If You Have Only Two Lights for the Third Night?

Purim

• Is the Reading of Parshas Zachor and Parshas Parah a Biblical Obligation?
• Time of Reading Parshas Zachor: Rabbinic or Biblical?
• "Zecher" with Segol or "Zaicher" with Tzeirei?
• Ta'anis Esther: The Secret Behind the Name
• One Torah, Two Pronunciations
• Machatzis HaShekel on Ta'anis Esther
• Customs of Reading the Megillah
• The Blessing "Harav", and Haifa, Where Both Days Are Observed
• Hearing the Megillah by Telephone and the Like
• Is There an Obligation to Eat Bread and Meat?
• Purim Meal: Bread and Meat
• Timing of the Purim Meal and Purim Farbrengen
• Purim Joy: Transcending Logic, Not Law
• Purim Gifts: Training the Next Generation
• Purim Morning: A Blessing for All Mitzvos

Bar Mitzvah and Birthdays

• Bar Mitzvah – Age Thirteen for Mitzvos
• The Joy of a Bar Mitzvah: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 6, Part 7
• Bar Mitzvah Customs: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Celebrating the Bar Mitzvah: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
• Birthday: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
• Sixtieth Birthday: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Laying the Cornerstone

Not Yet Named

• 206, 206_002, 207, 207_003, 208, 208_002, 208_003, 209, 209_002, 211, 211_002, 211_003, 211_004, 211_005, 212, 212_002, 213, 262_001